{"id":520599,"date":"2016-08-04T11:44:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T16:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=520599"},"modified":"2016-08-05T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:44:01","slug":"appeals-court-upholds-adrian-peterson-suspension-in-14-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=520599","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Upholds Adrian Peterson Suspension in &#8217;14 Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/adrian_peterson_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/adrian_peterson_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"adrian_peterson_1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-520601\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP\/Staff) &#8211; A federal appeals court has ruled that the NFL was within its rights when it suspended Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson in 2014 after he was charged with child abuse.   A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that an arbitrator acted appropriately by upholding Commissioner Roger Goodell&#8217;s suspension of Peterson for six games. U.S. District Judge David Doty had tossed out arbitrator Harold Henderson&#8217;s ruling, saying he overreached his authority, but the appellate panel restored it. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Peterson, a former Palestine High School star, was suspended in 2014 under the league&#8217;s personal conduct policy after he was charged with child abuse over disciplining his son with a wooden switch. He wound up playing only one game that season.   The three-judge panel wrote that the players&#8217; union and the league both agreed to be bound by the arbitrator&#8217;s decision, and that Henderson had acted within his authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP\/Staff) &#8211; A federal appeals court has ruled that the NFL was within its rights when it suspended Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson in 2014 after he was charged with child abuse. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that an arbitrator acted appropriately by upholding Commissioner Roger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=520599\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Appeals Court Upholds Adrian Peterson Suspension in &#8217;14 Case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":520601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 09:17:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520602,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520599\/revisions\/520602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/520601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}